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pager

1

[ pey-jer ]

noun

  1. something, as a book or brochure, having a specified number of pages page (usually used in combination):

    Her latest report was a 12-pager.



pager

2

[ pey-jer ]

pager

/ ˈɪə /

noun

  1. a small electronic device, capable of receiving short messages; usually carried by people who need to be contacted urgently (e.g. doctors)
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pager

  1. A wireless device that, when activated, signals the bearer to contact either a predetermined party or the party indicated on the device itself. Often called a beeper for the annoying beeps some pagers use to alert their owner.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pager1

First recorded in 1965–70; page 1 + -er 1

Origin of pager2

1965–70; page 2( def ) + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Last year, on 17 September, at around 15:30, a pager which a nurse called Adam was given at the start of his shift at a hospital in Lebanon received a message.

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This decision is one of the best things about “Holland,” which brims with recently retro production design in Windows desktop computers, early cell phones and pagers, tapes rented from video stores and high-rise dad jeans.

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The beep of Dan Crook's emergency pager signals another job and he rushes off to the ambulance arrival bay.

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A dramatic Israeli intelligence operation in mid-September involved exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, resulting in the death of more than a dozen Hezbollah foot soldiers, with thousands of other people in Lebanon injured or maimed.

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The two ex-Mossad agents told US CBS News how the service duped Hezbollah into buying thousands of rigged walkie-talkies and pagers without realising they were made in Israel.

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